Abstract
THE task of compiling a map of Hispanic America on a scale of 1: 1,000,000 which was undertaken by the American Geographical "Society, of New York, in 1920 has now been completed by the publication of the 107th Sheet. This is regarded as a provisional issue of the international 'million' map in which in 1913 thirty-five governments agreed to participate. The original plan embraced the production of 974 sheets to cover the continental land masses and the larger islands, exclusive of polar regions. By 1938 a total of 405 sheets had been published, of which, however, only 232 could be voted as standard. Of these sheets, a large number were the American Society's sheets of South and Central America, in which areas only Brazil and the Argentine Republic had contributed any part of their respective shares in the international scheme. In Brazil the production was rapid and went far, but was not a government undertaking, and the sheets fell short of the standard scheme. Of the three Argentine sheets, no general printing seems to have been undertaken. In the Geographical Review of January there is a full account of the map of Hispanic America and some of the problems encountered.
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Map of Hispanic America. Nature 157, 870 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157870c0
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